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What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.
Paul Haggis
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Paul Haggis
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 10
Film Director
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London
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Paul Edward Haggis
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I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.
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We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.
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You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.
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I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.
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When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow.
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As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.
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The wrong one will start saying things like withdraw with honor. We've heard phrases like that before, and they led to thousands and thousands of deaths. Democrats always want to look tough.
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We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
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A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.
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This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.
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Walk through Santa Monica and try to find somebody who knows a young man or woman who's in this war. Here, war is an intellectual concept. If you lose your son or daughter, it's no longer an intellectual matter.
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I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.
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United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.
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I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.
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Right after we invaded Iraq, I put a sign on my lawn that said War is not the answer. That sign was either defaced, ripped up, or stolen every week. I had to replace that sign twelve times.
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I just want to thank people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren't cameras rolling. I want to dedicate this award to people who stand up for peace and against injustice and intolerance.
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I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.
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There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.
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